Category: Audio

Tarek Austin '16 is an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. He has handled a range of patent, commercial, and other litigation matters before state and federal courts, government agencies, and international tribunals.

Ben Wilson '76 is Chairman of the environmental law firm, Beveridge & Diamond in Washington, DC. He has been lead counsel in numerous complex environmental litigation and regulatory matters for major consumer product corporations, retailers, oil and gas companies, municipalities, and developers.

Bryan Killian '05 is a partner in the DC office of Morgan Lewis. Bryan is an appellate lawyer who represents clients facing complex, important, or unresolved questions of constitutional, statutory, and administrative law. He has argued more than 35 cases in the US Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, and District of Columbia Circuits.

David Sclar ‘07 is the author of Workplace Strategies for Technology Lawyers, a book of practical tips to perform at a high level as an in-house counsel, with a tech company focus. For most of his legal career, David has advised tech companies at various stages, from startup to established company, as outside counsel at Ropes & Gray and Cooley, the first Chief Privacy Officer at Rally Health, and most recently as the Healthcare Compliance and Privacy Officer at WW International. You can email him at techlawyerdave@gmail.com and visit his website at davidsclar.com,

In this episode, media lawyer Beth Lobel '88 draws from her over 20 years of experience at NBCUniversal, where she is Senior Vice President and counsel for news and non-fiction programming and Internet content. She lays out paths, considerations, and resources for starting a successful career media law, whether you’re 1L with some time to explore, or a law firm associate looking to make a move.

Kisha Morrow '02 is the Director of Diversity& Inclusion at Cravath, Swaine, & Moore. In this podcast she discusses her career path from associate to head of Diversity & Inclusion.

Isabel Yishu Yang '18 is the Founder and CEO of ArbiLex. ArbiLex is a predictive analytics startup specializing in international arbitration.

Eldy Roché is a senior associate in King & Spalding’s International Arbitration practice in the Houston office. Eldy is dual-qualified in civil law and common law: having first obtained her Law Degree from the Catholic University of Honduras, she also has an LLM from the University of Miami and a JD from Gonzaga University. She also attended The Hague Academy of International Law’s Summer Program on Private International Law. 

Matt Coleman graduated HLS in 2009, as the economy was rapidly spinning downward. After his law firm postponed his start date twice, he took matters into his owned hands. That lead to an exciting career that has included serving as in-house counsel for the Chicago Bears, partnership at Kirkland & Ellis, and becoming General Counsel of an innovative software company. Matt encourages students and recent graduates to take initiative, adapt to economic environments, and not to worry about falling behind.

In this podcast we feature Jennifer Norris, a counsel with Sidley’s office in Chicago and a 2008 graduate of HLS. Jennifer works extensively with the insurance industry on a wide range of matters from M&A transactions, to reinsurance and securities transactions, to advising on regulatory matters.

Today our guests are partners in the Business Finance and Restructuring department, also known as Bankruptcy, at Weil in New York. I am delighted to be joined by two extremely impressive women: Candace Arthur and Ronit Berkovich '01.

Alison N. Davis, a Shareholder at Littler Mendelson P.C., represents management in employment and labor law. She has extensive litigation experience in the employment arena.

Seth Berman teaches Cyber Crimes and Procedure at Harvard Law School and leads the Privacy & Data Security group at Nutter in Boston. Prior to joining Nutter, Mr. Berman managed both the Boston and London offices of the digital investigations and forensics firm Stroz Freidburg.  His past experience includes several years as an AUSA in […]

Jerry Ting and Jake Sussman (both ’18) are CEO and COO, respectively, of Evisort, an intelligent contract automation company they conceived and began while students at HLS. In this podcast, they talk both about both entrepreneurship and legal technology & innovation.

Marguerite Fletcher ’90 is the founder and president of Fletcher Consulting, a diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting firm. Ms. Fletcher has worked as a consultant at both the Verna Myers Consutling Group and the Ibis Consulting Group. Prior to founding Fletcher Consulting, she ran her own legal practice, worked in house at Genuity Inc. and […]

Jon Fetterolf, attorney and agent at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, describes his career as both a sports agent and litigator. One of his clients, Cincinatti Reds Pitcher Matt Bowman, gives his perspective on what players look for in their agents. Both talk about how they have experienced the  COVID-19 pandemic and what they think it means for the future of baseball. 

Ki P. Hong is the head of Skadden’s Political Law Group. He advises major corporations on the unique political law issues they face when engaging in government affairs or government procurement activity. These include federal and state campaign finance, lobbying, gift, ethics and conflict-of-interest laws.

Political law attorney Aria Branch counsels federal and state elected officials, candidates, political parties, trade associations, corporations, PACs and other political organizations on campaign finance and ethics issues. She has represented clients before the Federal Election Commission, the Office of Congressional Ethics, and state ethics and campaign finance regulators.

Nathaniel Amdur-Clark '14 represents Native American tribes across the country as an Associate at Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, LLP and splits his time between Washington, DC and Anchorage, AK.

Moving in-house is vastly different than moving to another law firm. In this podcast, we cover all aspects of an in house search including how soon you can move in-house, crafting the best resume, identifying meaningful job opportunities, in-house compensation, and the whole interview process. We also discuss current trends in the in-house world and how to think about your own career trajectory.